Elephant Tutorial - Watercolour - Intermediate to Advanced (Patreon)

Hi everyone,

A lot of you have been asking about this tutorial so it's finally finished.

I painted two of these elephants. I started filming the first one but half way through I felt it wasn't working so I turned off the camera and continued on. Not long after the camera was switched off it all started coming together. So I painted a second elephant and filmed the whole process. This is the second elephant. 

I recommend watching it all the way through before you try to paint it because I had to fix two problems with it:

1: I feel I should have put some masking fluid around the edge of the elephant before I painted the background.

2: After the first wash had gone on the elephant I found all the detail lines were difficult to see so I had to trace them all back on. So I either should have traced them darker first or I should have traced them on after I had done the first wash.

You'll see what I'm talking about when you watch the video.

All of the files are attached below. I've included an enlarged A3 size version of the line drawing spread over two pages for those who have difficulty enlarging files to print. I have also included two versions of the reference photo. One of them I lightened in Photoshop so you can see the detail better if you need it. There are two versions of the Supplies List - one a docx file and a pdf for those who can't open docx files.

Tutorial index on my website: http://www.louisedemasi.com/new-index

Clickable tutorial index on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/34865676

I hope you enjoy it! I can't wait to see your paintings.

Have a wonderful weekend.

Louise